Single touch payroll must knows for Australian small businesses
Single Touch Payroll – or STP – is a looming reality for small Australian businesses and will require you to take action. First cabs off the rank were businesses with over 19 employees on the payroll which began reporting Payroll to the ATO through STP…
Making Tax Digital: update for the UK
The story so far It was an exciting end of the year for us in the Reckon One team as HMRC reviewed our MTD work, added us to their ‘Software suppliers with VAT compatible products in development’ list and validated our approach to completing MTD for…
What is Payday filing?
Payday filing is a new government requirement that changes the way you submit your employee payroll information to the Inland Revenue Department (IRD). Currently employers file employee earnings and PAYE information to the IRD each month, no matter how frequently they pay their employees. Under…
Making tax digital in the UK – what you need to know
In less than 6 months’ time, starting April 2019, the first mandatory phase of Making Tax Digital will go live. This change will impact nearly all VAT registered UK businesses. Are you ready? The purpose of MTD is to digitise tax in the UK and…
What are these GDPR changes and what do I do about them?
What is the GDPR? The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new initiative about to come into force on May 25, 2018. The regulation is designed to unify and clarify the disparate data privacy regulations across the European Union. Essentially everyone will now be on…
How exactly do you use the $25,000 tax offset?
2019 ARTICLE UPDATE: Small businesses will now have a $25, 000 limit, up from $20, 000 in 2018. We have been talking a lot about the federal budget throughout last week’s announcements. See our budget roundup here, what it means for small business here and…
The ‘stick and carrot’ budget: the good, the bad and the mediocre
Well there we have it folks, the Federal Budget 2018 is in. We have some good stuff in there, some ok stuff, and some relatively negative stuff, but by and large we have not seen any significant new small business boosters since 2015 – the…
Visions of the 2018 Federal Budget
Ah the federal budget – that unapologetic and mind numbingly dense edict that will change the way you live and do business – either dramatically, or more than likely, in a marginal manner. It may sound less than exciting but really, this is good stuff…